Mattie Ree Neal (b.2001) is from Nashville, Tennessee and lives with her husband in New Haven, Connecticut. Mattie trained primarily with her father, Michael Shane Neal, his mentor, renowned artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, and travelled to seek instruction directly from the living master artists all over the world. She is committed to the values of traditional portraiture and hopes to honor the rich lineage of teaching that has been passed to her so generously. Mattie loves painting the landscape and exploring subjects of all kinds, but spends most of her time painting portraits on commission and feels honored to have the opportunity to paint people of all ages and walks of life. Mattie and her husband Samuel Walter have studios in their home where they paint, study, and teach art to students of all ages. She also shares her father's studio in Manhattan and teaches with Drawing New York in Gramercy, at Warehouse 521 in Nashville, and has been on faculty at the Portrait Society of America conference. She recently finished her time as the artist in residence at Lipscomb University. Mattie has work in Private and Public collections all over the world and has been awarded prizes for her portraiture from the Art Renweal Center and The Portrait Society of America.